Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft deployed its two photo voltaic arrays after launching earlier immediately at 7:41 a.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Area Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida. The mission is named NASA’s Northrop Grumman Business Resupply Companies-24, or Northrop Grumman CRS-24.
Dwell protection of the spacecraft’s arrival will start at 12 p.m. Monday, April 13, on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel. Discover ways to watch NASA content material by means of quite a lot of on-line platforms, together with social media.
NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams will seize Cygnus XL utilizing the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm at roughly 12:50 p.m. After seize, the spacecraft will likely be put in on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port and can stay on the station till October. NASA is not going to present reside protection of the spacecraft’s set up.
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